Kim Lew

President and Chief Executive Officer at Columbia Investment Management

Kim Lew is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Columbia Investment Management Company, where she manages the University's endowment. By taking this role, Lew became the first African American and Chinese American woman to run a large Ivy League endowment. Well-seasoned through her time at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she worked for over a decade, she most recently served as their Vice President and Chief Investment Officer. After obtaining her MBA from Harvard Business School, she joined the Prudential Capital Group and later the Ford Foundation, where she held a variety of roles, such as a Portfolio Strategist in technology and a Senior Manager for private equity investments. Kim Lew serves on the boards of both Ariel Investment Management Mutual Funds and Girls Who Invest.